James Anderson perhaps was not bloody tired winning 700 wickets, beating the record set by Fred Trueman’s 300 wickets record then.
When Fred Trueman became the first bowler to take 300 wickets in Test cricket back in 1964, he is reported to have remarked that anyone who’d break his record would be “bloody tired”. James Anderson proved otherwise.
From tearaway seamer to 700 Test wickets; England fast bowler dismisses India’s Kuldeep Yadav to join Shane Warne and Muttiah Muralitharan in exclusive club.
Having comfortably cleared that mark in his early 30’s, the relentless Anderson claimed a staggering 700th Test wicket, aged 41, on day three of the fifth and final Test between India and England in Dharamshala, when having Kuldeep caught behind by Ben Foakes.
He did it with barely a bead of sweat on his brow and looking as fresh-faced and, certainly on this tour, as flame-haired as he did when making his Test debut over two decades ago.
Anderson continues to deceive and dumbfound deep into the tail end of his career with his skillful mastery of swing and seam bowling, always operating off an immaculate line and length. And there appears no end in sight just yet.
He’s been lucky enough to be on the field for some of Jimmy’s milestones but being there for 700 wickets as a seamer is phenomenal.
England captain Ben Stokes opined that any young kind who wants to be a fast bowler should look up to him and try and emulate everything he has done. From the first day he was a cricketer, let alone where he is now.
